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women's rhetoric & the American cookbook, 1790-1940
xiii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
In Tasteful Domesticity, Sarah Walden demonstrates how women used the cookbook as a rhetorical space. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well a physical constraints, and thus serves as a bridge across the contested space of the self and the body, particularly for women in the nineteenth century. Cook-books represent important contact zones of social philosophies, cultural beliefs and rhetorical traditions, and through their rhetoric, we witness women's varied roles.
Taste and virtue -- Taste and morality -- Taste and region -- Taste and science -- Taste and race.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.